Word: cruelest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest rates surged on the eve of the 1973-74 recession, they have been losing deposits in a big way. April, for instance, is normally a poor month for the savings banks, since their customers commonly make large withdrawals to pay taxes. But April 1979 was by far the cruelest ever: nationwide, savings and loan institutions lost $1.5 billion in deposits (vs. an increase of $400 million last year). They gained back $1.2 billion in May, but that was considerably below last year's more normal $2.1 billion in new deposits...
...Crimson football team typified Harvard sports in '78-'79: sweet hopes, but sour results. The gridders toppled eventual Ivy champ Dartmouth and Penn, but fell by a single point in an excruciating loss to Brown. Cornell slopped past them on a muddy field. And in the cruelest finish, despite having the ball on Princeton's five yard line with 28 seconds left, the offense stumbled and fumbled, and the game ended in a 24-24 deadlock...
Farouk made Saturday the cruelest day of all. In the morning he would order prisoners brought to the reception area. With a wave of his hand, he would signal which were to die that night. At 7 p.m. precisely, the cars parked in the courtyard would be started to drown out the screams to come. Each prisoner was brought down and told to kneel before an officer in the yard. He was asked to explain why he had been brought in and was told he was being released. Then guards would leap from the darkness, loop a thick rope round...
Spring Awakening. In 1891 German Playwright Frank Wedekind psychographed an adolescent torn by the conflicting demands of natural desire and social propriety. In this revival, the Juilliard Theater Center revealed anew that April is still the cruelest month...
...YORK--In what must have been the cruelest, most heartbreaking loss ever suffered by a Harvard cross country team, the Princeton Tigers upset the favored Crimson in the Heptagonals here at Van Cortlandt Park yesterday afternoon...